11:42 a.m. Anybody watching C-Span? News Anchors' Perspective

[LittleApple81]

News Anchors' Perspective on Presidential Elections
Harvard University, Kennedy (J.F.) School of Government

Rather, Dan, Anchor, CBS
Jennings, Peter, Anchor, ABC Television
Brokaw, Tom, Anchor, NBC Television
Woodruff, Judy, Anchor, CNN, News
Lehrer, Jim, Anchor, PBS, Newshour with Jim Lehrer

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. What the HELL is Woofwoof doing their!!!

To say that Judy is a "News Anchor" is to imply that she actually reports news.

:wtf:

[opihimoimoi]

2. check out her knees....

[Gin]

3. Dan Rather told some honest truth....he said there was fear in the

newsroom and those that gave both sides and stood up to the fear are either gone and are fewer and fewer.

[Cha]

6. Wow! I'm shocked! Dan Rather really said that?!!!

So Good of him!

I have it on mute..I see judy,judy,judy, is blathering now.

[Downtown Hound]

52. I give him some points for telling some of the truth but

he's still a coward in my book. U.S. soldiers are dying. Protesters risk jail and beatings. All of these people suffered because these wimps succumbed to "pressure." Grow a pair Dan! People are dead because none of you would take a stand!

[Kahuna]

55. Look what happened to Ashleigh Banfield.

She dared to speak the truth and was banished.

[thebigidea]

67. Well, they did let her cover blizzards in New England

Truly a prestige assignment.

It was really unexpected to hear commentary like that coming from Banfield - post-9/11 she was as shameless as the rest of them.

Nowadays, I slightly regret mocking her in "The Empire Never Ended."

Slightly.

http://www.terminalproduct.com/empire.rm

[KoolAidJones]

26. Well? What is your issue with her knees?

And what does it have to do with their statements?

[Kahuna]

56. "KoolAidJones..." Nice handle...

:>/

[LittleApple81]

4. Jennings: you are tiptoeing to how we covered the news before the

war?
No answer. We don't allow the hate to dominate us?????
Did I miss something?

[donsu]

5. like, we know they are greedy cowards

why waste time listening

[Cha]

7. That's why I have it on mute...

I got to see Thomas Medino(Mayor of Boston) earlier..he really gave those freep callers back in their face!

[LittleApple81]

8. I missed that! Could you give details? Thanks. n/t

[0007]

20. Ck. out the c-span video, hard to give a detailed report on.

However it was excellent. And he did give much praise to John Kerry.

[Cha]

31. Thomas Medino was on live and then they had a repeat...

sorry you missed it because it was Liberal/Progressive at its finest without all the interruptions of dithering dittobots. Except for the reichwing callers who as I said..Medino shot right down.

I was going to give you a link to c-span but that don't have the Medino segment or Sunday's show up yet. But if you get a chance ..you would like it.

Medino said when a caller asked about John Kerry's Liberalism that Liberal is a beautiful word and talked about education, and healthcare.

[Gin]

9. they listen to their owners...and toe the line....it's all about money and

fame....so..they have been bought and sold like the slaves of the past..slavery with a different face is alive and well.

[LittleApple81]

11. Basically Jennings said that it is the corporations pressing them to

go conservative.
Then Rather said he has never felt the corporate pressure.

[LittleApple81]

12. He got insulted getting off the plane: "You American Hater. Leave the

country."

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Al Franken is in the audience!

I wish he was on the stage instead.

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[in_cog_ni_to]

21. Ya think?

:) I know, but he's SO much more entertaining than Jennings and Brokaw.

[leftchick]

40. no more biased than Tom GE Brokaw...

The only difference is Al admits to being biased. Tom pretends to be an "independant journalist". :puke:

[Kahuna]

58. Who asked them to? Stay on topic please...

:D

[maggrwaggr]

65. Yeah? Compared to Wolf Blitzer for instance?

right ....

[Cha]

34. And Eric Alterman asked a question about the bad

info leading up to the war and there was applause in the room!

Of course, Jennings took no blame.

[LittleApple81]

13. Leher: It is not fulfilling the duties as citizens not to cover the

elections on the networks. He gave a very good spiel...

[eleny]

14. looks like pbs will be the place to watch

[Gin]

15. he put them on the defensive..I love it.

g

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. G-D LOVE that man!

What he said is TRUE! "One of these 2 groups of people will be running our country and you 3 networks don't think this is important enough to cover?" A pew poll says that 75% of Americans are interested in this election NOW. Before at this time it was 42 or 45% interested at this time in an election. People know how IMPORTANT THIS election is. Thank You Jim Lehrer!

[LittleApple81]

17. Media tenor report: negative coverage...not issue coverage.

Woodruff: we report the positive. BWAHAHAHA...she forgot to say positive to Bush!!!!! is she getting too old to remember what she says?

[mandyky]

19. They won't admit that shrub

is making them march. What a cover their butts session this is. Jim Lehrer is giving em hell though!!

[LittleApple81]

22. QUESTION SESSION. I hope they are going to ask good ones???

[LittleApple81]

23. How are they going to report results on election night?

They won't rely on exit polls... I wonder if that is good... with the machines this might hurt us.

[Cha]

35. They reported the polls when Gore was winning and they

were right! It's the freakin' machines that got screwed up for whatever reason in Florida and who knows where else?

[LittleApple81]

24. Alterman asking questions: Beginning of panel not good: WE ARE

UNDER ENORMOUS PRESSURE. The coverage we are getting is influenced by the war on the media who are "perceived" to be liberal.

[LittleApple81]

25. Alterman: 70% people misinformed (Saddam/911). What are they

going to do about it?

[eleny]

27. omigod! the moderator only allowed one person to answer

alterman's question was nipped.

[LittleApple81]

29. And then he lets them go on an on about 1 hour news. NEVER HAPPEN!

[Cha]

37. Exactly! Too much time would be spent on it according

to herr moderator.

[KoolAidJones]

28. Why did it take him three minutes to ask the question?

Does he just like to hear his voice or was he making a speech?

[eleny]

32. Because he wanted to instruct as well as ask

The fact that they all are allowed to blather on about less important issues and then got his question nipped was about the most interestng thing that happened since I tuned in.

[Cha]

39. Gimme a BreaK!! Eric Alterman has been a strong

Progressive voice in this whole Iraqi shit hole and he wanted to set the question up right!

[LittleApple81]

30. Shoot... missed Al Franken's remark...Anybody help me? please.

[eleny]

33. He responded to Brokaw

and said he wasn't listening - as if he hadn't been paying attention at the moment. Funny stuff!

[eleny]

36. Gee, FOX isn't represented on this panel

[Cha]

41. That's right! WTF?

[LiviaOlivia]

50. Earlier the moderator said that Fox

was invited but that they declined.

[Cha]

59. That's hilarious! Chickenshits to the end!

[LittleApple81]

38. Question: what is heavier: corporate concentration of media or

political campaigns (e-mail criticism campaigns).
More media in more hands would preferred (Jennings). Corporations very bottomline conscious. No sh*t, Sherlock!!!
Rather: pressures create an undertow...and some people say fear...we are paid to resist pressure. When they succumb to pressure people know because audiences are smarter than media give them credit for them.

[LittleApple81]

42. Why do people go to COMEDIANS rather than news programs for the

news.
Not young people: everybody.
Even Jon Stewart is worried...

[Gin]

43. thats what the CIA did with Cheney and his visits...succumbed to pressure.

g

[LittleApple81]

44. Good question about fear with Homeland Security. Jennings trying

to word it and he CAN'T. They are afraid of not being afraid!!! essentially.

[eleny]

46. All of a sudden, I'm sick of these guys

I'm remembering when they rode Clinton's back daily, hourly. And now they're all acting like they're breathing rarified air and have every good intention.

I wish the venue was such that Franken or Moore could have been on this panel just to mix it up and highlight the hypocrisy. As far as I'm concerned, the high point was Alterman asking his question. And we saw how fast his point was swept off the table. Pah!

[LittleApple81]

45. Congresswoman Boxer? from California: What could you have done better

before the runoff to war?

[Gin]

48. this is the most interesting discussion I have seen in a long time...

g

[in_cog_ni_to]

49. Rather...We didn't ask enough questions to get more DIRECT answers.

Wow.

[Corgigal]

54. because they didn't Fear

one of the grandkids being killed over this decision. If they thought they would be attending a personal funeral for a loved one, instead of a colleague they might have gave a damn. War is always great to write about and can make some journalist superstars and I doubt they could vote against their own financial interest.
Lets draft all the grandkids of journalist and watch your news do a 180.

[LittleApple81]

47. We did not ask enough questions often enough of the administration

Did not press what the information was and where it came from.
(Rather)

[LittleApple81]

51. Even Woodruff admits they didn't not listen to questioning voices.

She uses 9/11 was a problem.

[LittleApple81]

53. Brokaw... CIA WMD... failure on newspeople: did not connect

dots...absence of hearings... senate, house.... townhouse meetings.

The atmosphere of 9/11.
Desert storm: Made Democrats be afraid and they didn't want to get caught in that again.

[LittleApple81]

57. Jennings said he was using the Kerry excuse: If I had known then what

I know now I would do it differently. Sorry to say, but Kerry's vote for the war still bothers me... I will STILL vote for him... but I dislike that vote.

[Kahuna]

60. LOL! "KoolAidJones" has been tombstoned. Could he have been

more obvious with a name like that. :crazy:

[Cleita]

61. Are you listening to the phone calls right now?

The freeper morans are talking about the librul media.

[LittleApple81]

62. The last one: Bush is a man of God who only wants good for the country!

freepers are so stupid...and we have let them kidnap the agenda for our country.

[LittleApple81]

63. I didn't know that authors are allowed only once on BookNotes.

A caller asking about Bansford's book not being discussed (influence of Israel on the push for war, and interrogators)

[LittleApple81]

64. The last one was right on target: QUIT USING GOD TO JUSTIFY AWFUL

THINGS. As far as we have come with science, let's leave God out of it.
Then he finished, ironically, "God Bless America."

[Cha]

66. Yes, I heard that one and I already know what the

other callers say cause I've heard them too many times spouting their religious dittoisms. Let's just hope that sane people outnumber the crazies this time out.

[kimchi]

68. Thanks for the recap.

Glad to hear it.